Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-10-04
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infantum last Thursday.
Mr.. w. T. Radford captured three
or four of the best premiums for
Holstcin cattle at the Nashville fair.
Messrs. G. d. Eads and Harvey
McCord have opened meat shop
on Sixth street, near the Episcopal
church.
Delhiah Baker, aged about So, was
yesterday adjudged insane and sent
to the Asylum. She lived in North
Christian.
Church Hill Grange will hold an
important meeting on the second
Friday and the attendance of all the
members 10 desired.
Charles Barnett, col, was arrested
Friday, charged with carrying a con-
cealed weapon aud being unable to
give bond was jailed.
Judge Joe McCarroll has moved
his law Office TO the Winfree & Kelly
block, west of the court house, next
to Petree T. DowDer.
Toliver Chappell and his wife,
both colored, were arrested, Friday,
for breach of the peace. Toliver was
fined IS aud costs and his wife dis
charged.
Sheriff Boyd accompand by Jailer
Long will leave this morning with
the five recently convicted penitentia-
ry recruits, who 60 up for terms Of
from 2 to 7years.
The framework OF Rev. A. G. Bid
dies residence on South Virginia 10
now up and the work OF building is
being pushed rapidly ahead by Forbes
& Bro. Rev. J. T. Barrow is also
building cottage on the same street.
There have been So accessions to
the church at Antioch as the result
of the two-weeks' meeting. The
meeting is still going on, Rev. II. F.
Perry, of the G. P. Church, and ]. W.
Bigham, of the NJ. Il. Church, doing
the preaching.
Rev. J. W. Venable has returned
from the meeting of the Supreme
Lodge 1. o. o. f. of the World,
which recently held its annual session
in Denver, Colorado. Mr.. Venable
had the honor of being elected Grand
Chaplain Of the body.
The Vittitoe boys who rode Mr..
Meadows horses during the races,
are two of a family OF "a children.
Their father had three wives and his
three families OF children aggregated
thirty four. The old man and nearly
all of his boys are great lovers OF
horses and most Of the boys arc jock
eys.
Mr.. s. II. Page is still increasing
the statistics concerning his prolific
Jimson tree, for it can no longer be
properly called a weed. 1t is now
81 feet high, 12I{ feet across the
top and 10 inches around the stalk
at the ground. The burs cut from it
now aggregate 2775, with hundreds of
blooms still on the plant, Mr.. Page
has caught It's tobacco flies from the
blossoms since Sept. 9th.
The Jennie Holman Company had
good houses on Friday and Saturday
nights. The company gave very
creditable performance Friday night,
but their closing performance was
about the worst we have ever seen In
the Opera House. Joshua Whitcomb
was the piece, and the comedian ~
who undertook to play the leading
role made complete botch of what
is really a splendid character.
Mr.. T. L. Graham sold last week to
Mr.. r. G.. Hopkins a Holstein bull
calf ~ months old for $50. This is
the frat male calf Mr.. Graham has
bred since he procured his herd of
Holsteins a year or two ago. With
this solitary exception his calves have
all been heifers. By-the-way, Mr..
Graham says the calf sold to Mr..
Hopkins is the best Holstein animal
ever bred in this part of the atate.
Tou Moy and Dou Gun, the Chi
nese laundrymen, have discarded
their Chinese garb and donned new
suits of handsome and stylish clothes.
They are beth young mon and speak
English quite well. They attend
church every Sunday and are making
moral, industrious, useful factors OF
the community. They sport elegant
gold watches aud chains and are EVIL
IDENTIFY doing hourishing business.
Jno. T. Nolen, prominent citizen
of Shilo, in the lower end of Mont
gomery county, Tenn, was shot and
killed by an unknown assassin last
Friday. He was IN blacksmith's
shop having some work done and
was shot through an auger hole in
the back of the shop. Tho assassin
escaped unobserved. Mr.. Nolen was
about As years of age and was man
Of wealth and standing in his com :
munity.
Several white eyeIess fish, similar
to those in Echo river, in Mammoth
Cave, have been pumped out OF the
well recently dug at the corner ofSth
> and Liberty, by the Metcalfe Manu.
0 Co. The well is So feet deep and the
, s,nn,v of water inexhaustible. A